Nancy Lee 李南屏

Nancy Lee 李南屏 is a Taiwanese-Canadian interdisciplinary media artist, DJ, curator, and cultural producer working across XR, music, audiovisual performance, and community organizing. Their practice is rooted in an ongoing investigation of surveillance, migration, and tech ethics — weaving these themes through immersive technology and embodiment.

Their XR journey began with Tidal Traces (NFB, 2017), a 360° dance film, followed by Telepresence (Western Front, 2018), blending VR with 8-channel live music performance. As a Sundance New Frontier alum and 2022–23 artist-in-residence at the Société des arts technologiques (Montréal), they collaborated with Kiran Bhumber on UNION, a speculative sci-fi work combining 3D scanning, XR, and immersive dome theatre performance. Their work has been presented at Cannes, SXSW, MUTEK Montréal and Japan, Centre Phi, and Berlinale.

Nancy co-founded Chapel Sound Art Foundation and CURRENT Symposium, supporting underrepresented artists through programming and mentorship. They teach workshops at Festival of Recorded Movement and IM4 Media Lab, offer programming consultation to VIFF and MUTEK Montréal, consult for Creative BC and Music BC on funding access, and serve on the boards of Love Intersections and Normie Corp – uplifting queer voices in media and music. Recent work includes Woven Memory: Copper Bodies (2024), a 3-channel A/V documentary installation with Chilean-Canadian weaver Soledad Fatima Muñoz, and OSMOSi: 422 Unprocessable Entity (2024), a speculative sci-fi performance about the platformization of society, marking a return to dance and music composition.

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Photo credit: Chieh Huang